Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Poor drinking water facilities, debilitating drainage system and crippling sanitation are the hallmarks of Rajasthan, says the latest survey. The 69th report of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) ranked Rajasthan among bottom five states for having least access to drinking water and toilets in rural areas. The report also says …
The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) project in four low income states -- UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. The project, directed towards improving piped water supply and sanitation services through decentralised delivery systems will be confined to the east …
India is the world's largest open air lavatory with over 620 million people practising open defecation in the country. Seeking to address this persisting problem, the UPA government has widened the scope of its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to include works relating to rural sanitation …
Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight. This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing …
This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood’s access to sanitation infrastructure. The …
The main objective of the CSR Guideline with regard to Sanitation would be as: To promote better human health and improve quality of life among people living in rural areas through improved sanitation measures, including adoption and creation of Adarsh Gram (model village) for all types of Water and Sanitation …
Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the provision of piped water and on-site sanitation services in rural and semi-urban areas and of the commercial, policy, and …
Despite the slowing economy and high inflation, the number of urban slums have fallen by nearly a third while the access to electricity, water and sanitation has improved across households in the four year period up to 2012. But worryingly, nearly 60 per cent of rural households continue to have …
At a time when the government talks about inclusive growth, more than 66 years after Independence almost 60 percent of people staying in rural India do not have access to latrine facilities, official data released here Tuesday showed. Data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), under the Ministry …
The situation is, however, far better in urban India as less than 9% of the population lacks the facility As many as 60 per cent of rural households do not have access to a toilet facility even after 66 years of independence, show official data. The situation is better in …
Poor sanitation is one of the most embarrassments of the world. Open defecation, cheap sanitation and hygiene practices claim the health and lives of human beings and creates an unfriendly environment. Nations are today taking up many efforts to encourage people to improve their sanitation/hygiene behavior. The Government of India …
People of four unions of Nachole upazila in Chapainawabganj district have been showing interest in using eco-san toilets as non-government organization NGO Forum with the association of another non-government organization Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization (ASSEDO) has started implementing a project titled 'Promotion of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene …
The fifth South Asian conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-V) has been inaugurated in Bhaktapur on Monday, with the declaration of Bhaktapur as an open-defecation free (ODF) district. President Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated the regional conference in presence of senior officials from South Asian nations. President Ram Baran Yadav receives a token …
While Dharwad district may be an education hub and the cultural capital of North Karnataka, it doesn’t score very well on basic amenities. Many families in villages of Dharwad district don’t have toilets in their houses. Only 37% of families in rural places of the district have toilets in their …
Over 67 per cent of rural households do not have access to toilets, according to government data. In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today, Bharatsinh Solanki, minister of state for drinking water and sanitation, said in 2011 census, the figure of rural households without access to toilets …
Inclusive growth and providing basic amenities to people living in rural areas dominates political discourse but recent government data shows that over 67% of rural households don't have access to toilets while members of at least 22% rural households have to trudge more than half a kilometer to fetch drinking …
In 2009, the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme was modified as the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) with major emphasis on ensuring sustainability of water availability in terms of potability, adequacy, convenience, affordability and equity, on a sustainable basis, while also adopting decentralized approach involving PRIs and community organizations. …
This synthesis report, based on a series of case studies (rural Thailand, Bihar in India and Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania) identifies the challenges relating to equity and sustainability of public financing for sanitation and draws emerging lessons on how to improve the allocation of public funds for sanitation. The …
This report examines private sector provision of on-site sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania, four countries where the local private sector already plays a major role in helping rural (and many urban) households construct and maintain sanitation. In Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Tanzania, at least 95 percent of the …
Most of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and in developing regions the proportion living in cities and towns has risen from 35 percent in 1990 to 45 percent in 2010, from 1.4 billion to 2.5 billion people (Jacobsen et al. 2012). A 2008 World Bank analysis estimated …
